Vitória S.C.

Vitória de Guimarães
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Full name Vitória Sport Club
Nickname(s) Vitória de Guimarães
Founded 1922
Ground Estádio D. Afonso Henriques,
Guimarães
(Capacity: 30,165)
Chairman Portugal Emílio Macedo
Manager Manuel Machado
League Portuguese Liga
2009–10 Portuguese Liga, 6th
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

Vitória Sport Clube is a Portuguese sports club based in the city of Guimarães. The club includes football, volleyball and basketball departments. The club is reported to have been established in 1922. In Portugal, it is usually called Vitória de Guimarães (pronounced [viˈtɔɾiɐ dɨ ɡimɐˈɾɐ̃ȷ̃ʃ]) to distinguish itself from Vitória Futebol Clube, a club from Setúbal, known as Vitória de Setúbal.

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Recent history

Although Vitória de Guimarães have never won the Portuguese Football Championship or the Portuguese Football Cup, it is one of the most respected clubs in Portugal, playing in the top division for the last few decades, usually challenging for a UEFA Cup place. However, in the 2005–06 season, the team was relegated to the Segunda Liga (Second League) after its worst championship performance in decades.

In the early 2000s, Vitória struggled to keep itself in the top Portuguese division (Superliga). Those years were marked by the decline of the leadership of Pimenta Machado, former president of the club. Machado was accused on charges of embezzlement. Despite this, Vitória had an impressive season. Progress continued in 2004–05, when they secured an impressive league fifth-place finish and qualified for European competition (the UEFA Cup). Vitoria's recent renaissance fell apart in 2005–06, as they finished 17th in the Superliga, despite reaching the cup semi-final, having beaten Benfica in the quarter-finals. They also failed to progress from their UEFA cup group, as eventual winners Sevilla, Premier League outfit Bolton Wanderers, and Russian team Zenit Saint Petersburg progressed.

After the fall, everyone thought that Vitória would get back in the First Division quite easily, even though the team itself wasn't that great. Then, what happened was almost a bad nightmare for the fans. Vitória, in the middle of the season, was rounding the 10th place and lower, with very few chances of getting promoted. During the winter break, there was a change in the club's direction and a new coach was hired, Manuel Cajuda. What followed next was a dream. Vitória started winning game after game and in the end managed to get to second place in the 29th game of the season; their promotion was guaranteed.

The promotion was crowned with a third place in the 2007–08 season, guaranteeing them a place in the third qualifying round of the Champion's League. They lost to Swiss team Basel and dropped into the UEFA Cup first round. They played Portsmouth of the English Premier League over two legs. Portsmouth progressed, winning 4–2 on aggregate.

New stadium

Estádio de Guimarães.JPG

Estádio D. Afonso Henriques is a football (soccer) stadium in Guimarães, Portugal. It was expanded and refurbished for the UEFA Euro 2004 competition, and it seats 29,865 people. In 2004, a new leadership era began with Vítor Magalhães (former President of Moreirense, another team from Guimarães municipality) and the team finished the championship in fifth place. In 2006, the team was relegated. After Os Três Grandes (Benfica, FC Porto, and Sporting CP), Vitória is the club which attracts most supporters to the stadium, with average attendances of 20,000 per game. (Vitória usually has a higher average than all the other clubs, even when the club played in the Second Division/League).

Minho rivalry

Aside from the loyalty of the supporters, which earned the White Angels the title "Best Fans of the Country" and became famous for the massive "invasions" to every city where Vitória plays, there is also a hooligan side, which often give the club a bad name. The city of Guimarães is often referred to as the "birthplace of the Portuguese nationality" and was the birthplace of Afonso I of Portugal (or Afonso Henriques), the first Portuguese king. This only adds fuel to the ever growing derby of Minho province with neighbours Sporting Clube de Braga. This derby is considered one of Portugal's most intense matches, as both clubs battle each year to reach a European competition. Both clubs have even tested each other in Europe where in the 1990s, Vitória were one of Portugal's best in Europe after the Big Three and Boavista, beating sides like Parma, Atlético Madrid, Real Sociedad, and Sparta Prague. The derby also intensified during the UEFA Euro 2004 tournament, hosted by Portugal, where both clubs were involved in new stadium reconstruction. Furthermore, both clubs looked for UEFA qualification but, despite reaching the 2005–06 Portuguese Cup semi-finals and having a decent UEFA Cup participation, Vitória got relegated to Second League. It didn't take much for Vitória to get back on top, and after just one year in the Portuguese Second Division, they earned the promotion. In 2007–08, the "duels" were exciting as always, providing great games and lots of supporters from both sides, both in Braga and in Guimarães. With Vitória back in the top flight, the emotion of one of the biggest derbies also got back, which pleased countless football fans.

Fans

Vitória de Guimarães possibly have the most different fans in Portugal. The biggest supporter group is the White Angels, who go by the motto Somos únicos (We are unique). A self confessed Vitória fan is Fernando Meira, who played at the club and now plays for Zenit Saint Petersburg in Russia. Meira, as the captain of VfB Stuttgart, raised the trophy of German champions in 2006–07, all the while holding a scarf of Vitória Sport Clube.[1]

Europe

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Brazil GK Nilson
2 Brazil DF Freire
3 Portugal DF Vítor Bastos
4 Brazil DF Valdomiro
5 Uruguay MF Santiago Ostolaza
6 Brazil DF Bruno Teles
7 Portugal FW Targino
10 Portugal MF Rui Miguel
11 Brazil MF Renan
12 Brazil FW William
19 Portugal DF Ricardo
20 Morocco FW Faouzi Abdelghni
21 Brazil MF Edson
No. Position Player
23 Portugal MF Bruno Pereirinha
24 Portugal GK André Pereira
25 Portugal MF João Ribeiro
26 Portugal MF Flávio Meireles
27 Portugal MF Custódio
29 Brazil FW Edgar
33 Brazil DF Anderson
52 Portugal GK Serginho
77 Brazil FW Maranhão
79 Portugal DF Alex
80 Portugal MF João Alves
99 Brazil FW Douglas
Portugal DF Gonçalo Silva

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player

2010–2011 summer transfers

Out

In

Notable former players

  • Portugal Alex
  • Portugal Bruno Alves
  • Portugal Capucho
  • Portugal César Peixoto
  • Portugal Costeado
  • Portugal Dimas
  • Portugal Duda
  • Portugal Fernando Meira
  • Portugal Gregório Freixo
  • Portugal João Fajardo
  • Portugal Laureta
  • Portugal Neno
  • Portugal Nuno Assis
  • Portugal Osvaldinho
  • Portugal Paulo Bento
  • Portugal Pedro Barbosa
  • Portugal Pedro Mendes
  • Portugal Pelé
  • Portugal Silvino
  • Portugal Vítor Damas
  • Portugal Vítor Paneira
  • Algeria Kamel Ghilas
  • Brazil Paulinho Cascavel
  • Colombia Edwin Congo
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Etienne N'tsunda
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Kabwe Kasongo
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo N´Dinga
  • Denmark Sebastian Svärd
  • France Yves Desmarets
  • Hungary Attila Dragóner
  • Mozambique Paíto
  • Poland Marek Saganowski
  • Slovenia Zlatko Zahovič
  • Sweden Fredrik Söderström
  • Tunisia Selim Benachour

Notable Former Managers

  • England Randolph Galloway (1954-55)
  • Belgium Raymond Goethals (1984-85)
  • Portugal António Morais (1985-86)
  • Brazil Marinho Peres (1986-87)
  • Portugal António Oliveira (1987-88)
  • Brazil Paulo Autuori (1989-91)
  • Portugal João Alves (1991-92)
  • Brazil Marinho Peres (1992-93)
  • Portugal Romeu Silva (1993-95)
  • Portugal Vítor Oliveira (1995-96)
  • Portugal Romeu Silva (1996)
  • Portugal Jaime Pacheco (1996-98)
  • Montenegro Zoran Filipović (1998-99)
  • Brazil Paulo Autuori (2000)
  • Portugal Augusto Inácio (2001-03)
  • Portugal Jorge Jesus (2003-04)
  • Portugal Manuel Machado (2004-05)
  • Portugal Vítor Pontes (2004-05)
  • Portugal Jaime Pacheco (2005-06)
  • Portugal Luís Norton de Matos (2006)
  • Portugal Manuel Cajuda (2006-09)
  • Portugal Nelo Vingada (2009)
  • Portugal Paulo Sérgio Bento Brito (2009-10)
  • Portugal Manuel Machado (2010-)

Honours

League and Cup history

The club's 63 presences at the top level of Portuguese football make the fifth club with most presences, after FC Porto, Sporting CP, and Benfica (all with 73); and Belenenses with 65.

Season League Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Portuguese Cup Portuguese Supercup League Cup Europe Notes
1941-42 1D 11 22 6 1 15 43 76 13 Final
1942-43 1D 8 18 6 2 10 48 76 14 Round 5
1943-44 1D 8 18 2 3 13 25 68 7 Semi Final
1944-45 1D 8 18 4 3 11 32 57 11 Round 6
1945-46 1D 8 22 8 2 12 39 52 18 Quarter Final
1946-47 1D 8 26 8 8 10 54 54 24
1947-48 1D 7 26 10 4 12 44 56 24 Round 5
1948-49 1D 6 26 11 4 11 47 50 26 Round 6
1949-50 1D 11 26 7 7 12 45 59 21
1950-51 1D 13 26 6 6 14 40 57 18 Quarter Final
1951-52 1D 10 26 9 3 14 28 47 21 Round 6
1952-53 1D 8 26 7 6 13 28 54 20 Quarter Final
1953-54 1D 8 26 10 5 11 44 64 25 Quarter Final
1954-55 1D 14 26 5 7 14 33 49 17 Round 5 Relegated
1955-56 2D 2 - - - - - - -
1956-57 2D 3 - - - - - - -
1957-58 2D 2 - - - - - - - ??? Promoted
1958-59 1D 5 26 13 3 10 59 55 29 Round 6
1959-60 1D 7 26 8 7 11 47 43 23 Quarter Final
1960-61 1D 4 26 14 2 10 48 44 30 Round 6
1961-62 1D 9 26 9 4 13 44 47 22 semi-final
1962-63 1D 6 26 12 3 11 47 43 27 final
1963-64 1D 4 26 16 2 8 62 42 34 Round 6
1964-65 1D 7 26 12 5 9 44 36 29 Round 6
1965-66 1D 4 26 14 5 7 58 47 33 Round 5
1966-67 1D 6 26 11 4 11 35 40 26 Round 5
1967-68 1D 6 26 12 3 11 31 34 27 Quarter Final
1968-69 1D 3 26 13 10 3 46 17 36 Quarter Final
1969-70 1D 5 26 12 4 10 38 36 28 Quarter Final Round 2
1970-71 1D 12 26 4 11 11 15 27 19 Round 5 Round 2
1971-72 1D 6 30 11 8 11 49 47 30 Round 5
1972-73 1D 6 30 11 11 8 38 38 33 Round 6
1973-74 1D 6 30 10 11 9 36 34 31 Round 5
1974-75 1D 5 30 16 6 8 64 36 38 Round 6
1975-76 1D 6 30 13 10 7 49 32 36 final
1976-77 1D 9 30 10 6 14 39 38 26 Round 6
1977-78 1D 6 30 12 7 11 33 28 31 Round 5
1978-79 1D 6 30 12 7 11 44 38 31 Round 6
1979-80 1D 6 30 11 10 9 42 38 32 Round 5
1980-81 1D 5 30 11 9 10 38 30 31 Round 5
1981-82 1D 4 30 13 12 5 42 22 38 Round 5
1982-83 1D 4 30 11 10 9 35 24 32 Round 5
1983-84 1D 6 30 14 3 13 41 41 31 semi-final Round 1
1984-85 1D 9 30 9 7 14 33 39 25 Round 6
1985-86 1D 4 30 16 8 6 51 29 40 Round 6
1986-87 1D 3 30 14 13 3 45 22 41 Quarter Final Quarter Final
1987-88 1D 14 38 11 11 16 48 50 33 final Round 2
1988-89 1D 9 38 14 10 14 39 33 38 Round 5 winner not held Round 1
1989-90 1D 4 34 17 11 6 46 28 45 Semi Final
1990-91 1D 9 38 12 10 16 31 40 34 Round 6 Round 1
1991-92 1D 5 34 14 13 7 46 35 41 Round 5
1992-93 1D 11 34 14 3 17 41 53 31 Semi Final Round 2
1993-94 1D 7 34 11 11 12 30 31 33 Round 5
1994-95 1D 4 34 16 10 8 54 43 42 Round 5
1995-96 1D 5 34 19 5 10 55 39 62 Quarter Final Round 2
1996-97 1D 5 34 15 8 11 51 46 53 Round 5 Round 2
1997-98 1D 3 34 17 8 9 42 25 59 Round 5 Round 1
1998-99 1D 7 34 14 8 12 53 41 50 Round 5 Round 1
1999-00 1D 7 34 14 6 14 48 43 48 Quarter Final
2000-01 1D 15 34 9 9 16 41 49 36 Round 5
2001-02 1D 9 34 11 9 14 35 41 42 Round 5
2002-03 1D 4 34 14 8 12 47 46 50 Round 5
2003-04 1D 14 34 9 10 15 31 40 37 Round 5
2004-05 1D 5 34 15 9 10 38 29 54 Round 5
2005-06 1D 17 34 8 10 16 28 41 34 Semi Final Group Stage Relegated
2006-07 2H 2 30 16 7 7 44 20 55 Round 5 Promoted
2007-08 1D 3 30 15 8 7 35 31 53 Round 5 Third Qualifying Round

Colours

Home kit: white shirt and white shorts.

Away kit: black shirt and black shorts.

Third kit: light grey shirt and light grey shorts.

Basketball

Vitória S.C. men's basketball team has playing in the Proliga.

Volleyball

Vitória Sport Clube has a volleyball team which plays in the Portuguese Volleyball League A1.

External links

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